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Hecht-Hill-Lancaster was a production company formed by the actor Burt Lancaster in association with his agent, Harold Hecht, and James Hill. In 1948 Lancaster and Hecht formed Norma Productions (named after his wife), which later became Hecht-Lancaster. Hill joined in the mid-1950s.
Apr 23, 2000 · Not many superstars would have played J.J. Hunsecker, the vicious Walter Winchell-type Broadway columnist in the 1957 classic “Sweet Smell of Success,” which his independent film company,...
During the 1950s, his production company, Hecht-Hill-Lancaster, was highly successful, with Lancaster acting in films such as: Trapeze in 1956, a box office smash in which he used his acrobatic skills; Sweet Smell of Success (1957), a dark drama today considered a classic; Run Silent, Run Deep (1958), a WWII submarine drama with Clark Gable ...
Sweet Smell of Success is a 1957 American film noir drama film directed by Alexander Mackendrick, starring Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis, Susan Harrison, and Martin Milner, and written by Clifford Odets, Ernest Lehman, and Mackendrick from the novelette by Lehman.
May 28, 1985 · Harold Hecht, the film producer who joined with Burt Lancaster to form one of the first independent film producing companies in Hollywood, died of complications from cancer Saturday at his home...
Nov 1, 2022 · Norma Productions was renamed Hecht-Lancaster, and later Hecht-Hill-Lancaster once producer/writer James Hill joined them. Lancaster’s independent production company became the most successful in Hollywood of the era. You can read more about that in my post of their 1955 Best Picture Oscar winner, "Marty".
Jul 19, 2013 · Hecht Hill Lancaster allowed him to avoid typecasting — because he was casting himself — and the result was a diversity of roles. Some of them odd and daring, like the titular swimmer in the 1968 film based on John Cheever’s classic story.
